Sanami Nakano
Sept. 10, 1929 - Aug. 28, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 10:19 AM PDT
ONTARIO
Sanami Nakano, 78, of Ontario, Ore., passed away Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, at a local care center. Memorial services will be held at noon Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, at the Idaho-Oregon Buddhist Temple, Ontario. Interment of cremated remains will follow at Evergreen Cemetery, Ontario.
Sanami was born Sept. 10, 1929, in Kent, Wash., the first-born daughter of Tom Noboru and Yukiye Nakano. She was raised in the Kent-Auburn area in Washington until 1937, when the family moved to Eastern Oregon and settled in the Bully Creek area. She graduated from Vale Union High School in 1948, and the family moved to Ontario in November of the same year.
Sanami worked as a bookkeeper for 50 years. She retired in 1998 and spent her golden years enjoying her volunteer activities at Holy Rosary Medical Center and Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum, her association with the Sangha at the Temple and her family reunions at the Oregon coast, Lake Tahoe and her favorite, the islands of Hawaii.
She is survived by her four sisters, Mae, of Ontario, Alice Tano (Benny), of Portland, Ore., June Miura (Ed), of Sacramento, Calif., Colleen Grant (Bill), of Beaverton, Ore.; her two brothers, Donald, of Portland, Ore., and Jim, of Ontario; and four nieces; two nephews; one grand-niece; and five grand-nephews.
She was preceded in death by her mother and father, her brother, Hiroaki, and her sister, Amy. Condolences may be made to the family at www.lienkaemper-thomason.com.
